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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Justice theories"”.
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Access to Environmental Justice: NGO Environmental Advocacy on Mining-Related Environmental Issues in Mongolia
… this thesis, I apply the theory of environmental justice to determine how NGOs use substantive and procedural environmental rights to advocate for mining-affected nomadic communities in Mongolia. Environmental NGOs often possess legal and scientific expertise pertinent to resolving and mitigating …
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"Working with Students from Displaced Backgrounds" Teacher Training Workshop
… issue by integrating sociological and social justice theories with educational practices of teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL). The project focuses on designing, conducting, and improving a professional development workshop for TESOL teachers. The workshop covers the …
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The effect of fairness perception of performance measurement in the balanced scorecard environment
… be fully exploited. Drawing on organisational justice theories, this study proposes a fairness model to help overcome the problem of common-measure bias found by Lipe and Salterio (2000) in the BSC environment. Using the concepts of fairness perception, divisional/unit manager participation and …
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Measuring justice in machine learning
… answer this question, we need to know both what justice is and how to tell whether one system is more or less just than another. That is, we need both a definition and a measure of justice. Theories of distributive justice hold that justice can be measured (in part) in terms of the fair …
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Facilitating inclusive identity: HR practices, perceived fairness, and intergroup cognitions in corporate mergers
… identity theory, self-categorization theory, and justice theories, this study proposed a theoretical framework for studying the psychological processes that employees go through during the period of post-merger implementation. Specifically, this study investigated: (a) the effects of HR practices …
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Bay Area Student Involvement in the Environmental and Food Justice Movements: A Narrative of Motivations, Experiences, and Community Impact
… habitat destruction, and other environmental injustices. Community organizations and university programs are filling this much-needed gap in student environmental education, as they involve youth in understanding the principles of environmental activism, justice, and sustainability. But who are …
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Energy Use Caps under Scrutiny: An Ecological Economics Perspective
… but these solutions should consider social justice while striving for environmental sustainability. Since energy use contributes significantly to carbon dioxide emission, I analysed already developed energy capping schemes from an ecological economics perspective. Due to the fact that energy …
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Mothers’ Stories: How Family And Community Influences Affect Generations Of Literacy Challenges
… of infant-toddlers. Illiteracy is a social justice concern that contributes to poverty, poor health, and crime, and affects the economy and America’s status as the former world leader in education. There is contention among academic, corporate, private, and government sources regarding the …
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Just Biofuels? Mapping dimensions of energy justice in relation to an international liquid biofuel supply chain
… right to identify and address matters of energy justice associated with renewable energy technologies - and thus biofuels. Equity appraisals, as defined in this thesis, can help to identify social and environmental burdens caused by the implementation of these technologies and where they exist, …
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Impact of court-annexed mediation in South Africa: a developmental perspective
… impact of court-annexed mediation on access to justice, the efficiency and effectiveness of the justice system, and maximisation of the benefits of court-annexed mediation in South Africa. Alternative dispute resolution has become a recognised approach to dispute resolution around the world, and …
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The Politics of Numbers: Statistical Fairness, Market Justice and the ‘inclusion’ of First Nations people in Australian Universities
… does it provide a promising avenue for social justice? Guiding this project, from a methodological and ethical stance, is Indigenous Standpoint Theory, the Cultural Interface (Nakata 2007) and Critical Indigenous Studies. I also engage with critical statistical studies, critical policy studies …
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Examining work-family practice use and employee attitudes in a New Zealand local government organisation
… present study also use a set of organisational justice theories to examine perceptions of the fairness of work-family policies, and the link these perceptions may have with general employee attitudes. Also, for exploring work-family backlash, where the distribution of rewards suggests …
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El contraste de los modelos de Estado Social de Derecho y de Estado Neoliberal en el sistema general de seguridad social en salud colombiano, a la luz de las teorías de Amartya Sen y Robert Nozick
El presente trabajo propone una lectura de la crisis sistémica del sistema de salud colombiano en clave de las teorías de la justicia que subyacen a su estructuración como institución. Erigiéndose como alternativa a la tendencia de atribuir las causas de esta crisis a la prevalencia de las lógicas …